Dartmouth Professor Wants To Sue . . .

Harshaw · 05-05-08, 09:13 PM

. . . because she says her students' disagreeing with her creates a "hostile work environment."

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The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights.

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will "name names."

Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment - WSJ.com

Platanium · 05-13-08, 10:21 AM

Hrrm. On one hand if the students went too far I can see what the Prof. is saying. I mean, it's possible that she was harassed by her students and in that case Dartmouth had a duty to handle the harassment appropriately. It's also possible the Prof. is full of ****. Who knows?

DarkWizard12 · 05-13-08, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Platanium

Hrrm. On one hand if the students went too far I can see what the Prof. is saying. I mean, it's possible that she was harassed by her students and in that case Dartmouth had a duty to handle the harassment appropriately. It's also possible the Prof. is full of ****. Who knows?

Intellectually, its the second.

Platanium · 05-13-08, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkWizard12

Intellectually, its the second.

Probably. In which case the Prof. is going to be used as a Courtroom Pinata if it goes that far.

RightOfCenter · 05-13-08, 01:59 PM

She dropped the case a while back.